Tag: Pyrenees
Banyuls-sur-mer, a small, quiet fishing port in the Pyrenees
Navigate with keyboard Previous Following Nicknamed the “Smuggler’s Republic” by Louis XIV, Banyuls-sur-mer was a town that had long been unruly to authority. Today it is a small, quiet fishing…
Pic du Midi de Bigorre, a belvedere on the Pyrenees mountain range
Navigate with keyboard Previous Following Culminating at 2,877 meters, the Pic du Midi offers a magnificent belvedere on the Pyrenees mountain rangefrom Catalonia to the Basque Country. Open all year…
Emmanuel Macron treats himself to a “personal” getaway in the Pyrenees with Xi Jinping
Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping went to the Pyrenees on Tuesday, May 7, to the Col du Tourmalet, the legendary climb of the Tour de France, on the second day…
General Georgelin, responsible for the restoration of Notre-Dame, dies in the Pyrenees
General Jean-Louis Georgelin, former chief of staff of the armies and responsible for the restoration of Notre-Dame died in the mountains in the Pyrenees, indicates this August 19 the parquet…
where is the research in the Pyrenees?
It’s been more than a week since Mattéo Michel, a 20-year-old hiker, disappeared in the Hautes-Pyrénées. This unconditional fan of the Chamois Niortais would have been trapped by the fog…
in the eastern Pyrenees, water sharing is already creating tensions
It is the French department most severely affected by the drought: the Eastern Pyrenees (South), on the border with Spain. This territory of mountains, scrubland, vineyards and fruit trees, lives…
Maison Izard, wool and know-how from the Pyrenees
Today, wool from the Pyrenees, its properties and its French manufacture with Romain Delvit and Maison Izard. The creator of Maison Izard brings wool from the Pyrenees up to date…
For the young skiing supervisor Maxime, traditional winters are already mere history – the slopes of the Pyrenees are a sad sight to behold
LA MONGIE The sun is shining warmly and the water is gurgling in the stream as if it were spring. The Grand Tourmalet ski resort in the village of La…
The first summer of a shepherd in the Pyrenees
Walk in the pastures of the high Pyrenean peaks, in the footsteps of a young shepherd, Arnaud Bacon, at the head of a flock of 600 ewes until September. A…
Wednesday’s stage of the Tour: take-off in the Pyrenees
The Tour joins the Peyragudes take-off runway in the Hautes-Pyrénées on Wednesday, at the end of the four ascents of the 17th stage. The route was limited to 129.7 kilometers…